As Ernest Becker observes in The Denial of Death, the very thought of disobeying authority appears to awaken the anxiety connected with the possible loss, during infancy, of parental love, respect or support. The unexamined beliefs and experiences th...
Sheer scholarship alone cannot reveal to us the gospel of grace. We must never allow the authority of books, institutions, or leaders to replace the authority of KNOWING Jesus Christ personally and directly. When the religious views of others interpo...
The canon is an artifact of revelation, not an object of revelation itself. It is known infallibly to God by necessity and to man with a certainty directly related to God's purpose in giving the Word to the church. The canon exists because God has in...
When returned from Italy he called on Mr. and invited him to dinner: in the course of his rapturous address to him he declared that a statue of gold ought to be erected to him in every city in the universe, assuring him that he always slept with his ...
This philistinism of interpretation is more rife in literature than in any other art. For decades now, literary critics have understood it to be their task to translate the elements of the poem or play or novel or story into something else. Sometimes...
Fischer: I'm insured against kidnapping for up to 10 million. This should be very simple. Cobb: Shut up! It won't be. Arthur: In your father's office, below the bookshelves is his personal safe. We need the combination. Fischer: I don't know any safe...
There are books that speak to us of our own lives with a clarity we cannot match. They prevent the morose suspicion that we do not fully belong to the species, that we lie beyond comprehension. Our embarrassments, our sulks, our envy, our feelings of...
What good does it do me, after all, if an ever-watchful authority keeps an eye out to ensure that my pleasures will be tranquil and races ahead of me to ward off all danger, sparing me the need even to think about such things, if that authority, even...
All is a-swarm with commentaries: of authors there is a dearth.
I don't believe it pays to be a great author.
of the authors’ imagination and used fictitiously. Emerald Green Desiree Holt
One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.
With a film, I do my best to understand the author's intentions and try to bring the characters to life.
But above all, an author must write passionately and edit passionately.
There are only three indispensable things: the audience, the actor and the author. The rest is dross.
If I ever stop acting, I'd like to be the author of that decision.
Authors do not choose a story to write, the story chooses us.
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
An author is like a jeweller, with words as their gemstones and imagination the precious metals.
Authority is ability to rule. Dominion is rulership.
A famous author is a promoter who never quit.
